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ATLANTA — The Atlanta BeltLine is celebrating the influence of style writing. It's a form of graffiti art that came to Atlanta in the 1980s along with the Hip-Hop movement. "It's the visual language," ...

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Zephyr, Janette Beckman – Run DMC, New York City, 1986. As graffiti writers rose to prominence during the early 1970s, hip hop was a logical partner. With similar identities in the same culture, it ...

Artist Carlos Mare (aka Mare 139) explains graffiti in 12 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. Carlos explains everything from the simple tags and throwies to how he crafts a masterpiece using ...

A Tablet PC would have a proper digitizer/screen and would allow something like this natively, but I don't think the touchpad on a laptop has enough resolution/sensitivity to accurately detect ...

Known as the self-declared King of Style despite losing an arm and a leg in a childhood accident, early graffiti writer KASE 2 passed away two weekends ago, adding another famous name to the roster of ...

Graffiti and tattoos seem like total opposities. One is ephemeral, lasting only until it’s painted over by the city or other writers, the other is forever, or at least unless you decide to rip the ink ...

Graffiti writing as a common form of street art makes a lot of sense in a place like Los Angeles. Long, frequent commutes make boulevards and freeways the ideal canvas for artists to get eyes on a ...